Monthly Archives: Oct 2019

To create business opportunities for our members, ADESSA is forming partnerships with other organizations that could open doors for them. One such organization is BESA (British Educational Suppliers Association). To start the conversation, a brief interviewwas conducted with me to make BESA members aware of what ADESSA is doing. In time I hope that our association would reap mutual benefits.

With the end of the educational year nearing very quickly, Brainplay offers you the opportunity to replenish resources for 2020. There are nearly 4 000 Educational Resources available. This includes Brainplay’s Foundation Phase Maths Kits (R3 699.00) as well as the Intermediate Phase Maths Kits (R5 415.00).

The 2019/2020 catalogue can be foundhere. A 10% discount is offered on all the products in the range – this special offer is valid until the end of November 2019.

Please send a list of the items in which you are interested (with their codes) to info@brainplay.co.za and you will be sent a formal quotation, Brainplay will ensure that they still have sufficient stock of the items on your list.

For many schools, Snapplify’s simple solutions have made the adoption of digital education easy. Not only have educators seen just how easy procurement and delivery of e-textbooks can be in the digital age, but they’ve discovered how digital tools can transform their classrooms.

Snapplify makes e-textbook procurement easy!

Easy-peasy
ebook access

While the procurement of physical textbooks
can be a lengthy and complicated, purchasing e-textbooks via Snapplify is quick
and easy.

Snapplify’s diverse catalogue of high-quality,
curriculum-aligned, diverse content from trusted educational publishers – both
local and international – means that schools don’t need to deal with multiple
providers, nor do they need to worry about titles going out of stock, becoming
out of date, or taking time to arrive. Instead, Snapplify is what Colin
Zinyeredzi – Resource Centre Manager at Parklands College South Africa – calls
a ‘one-stop shop for educational and leisure reading material’. With
Snapplify’s prescribed lists, schools can purchase on behalf of students and
staff, or direct parents to purchase exactly what they need from the Snapplify Engage
e-learning platform, via credit card or EFT. Quality devices are
also readily available directly from Snapplify.

Each year, students can be issued with the latest e-textbooks without paper waste or returns of older books. Institutions can also monitor e-textbook usage through Snapplify Insights, and use this valuable data to inform future budgeting decisions and content choices. Colin Zinyeredzi has found this feature particularly useful, saying, ‘The system automatically manages the circulation of resources and even more importantly – it keeps a record of important statistics,’ while his colleague, Martin Levitt, ICT support technician at the same school echoes this, sharing: ‘[Snapplify] has made management much easier in getting the correct content to the learners and educators. Engage is an excellent tool that we use to keep track of our users and the titles they have.’

Several schools using Snapplify have noted how beneficial it is for students to have all their ebooks and e-textbooks in one place. Grant Lewis, ICT integrator at Crawford College La Lucia has spoken about how their ‘learners are loving their ebooks and the Snapplify Reader experience’, going on to say that ‘Snapplify has played a huge part in helping us transform our school into a more effective learning environment.’ Teacher Chanica Gibhard from Oakley House, a remedial school in Cape Town, shares how the reader app has specifically helped her students: ‘It can help every child differently. The technology just makes it a lot easier to target those needs. It brings everything together into one device.”

The latest issue (September 2019) issue of The Mighty Pen is now available for download.

As usual, it is packed with information, relevant to education. An overview of the activities of ADESSA is included in this issue. It is also good to see advertisements and articles about several ADESSA members, including Pearson, Edupac, Snapplify, Oxford University Press and Eduboard.

New partnerships with local and international investors take Snapplify to the next level.

‘We’ve been following Snapplify’s impressive growth journey since inception and it is a privilege to finally partner with the company and its stakeholders,’ says Andrea Bӧhmert, Co-Managing Partner at Knife Capital, adding: ‘Africa faces a wide range of social and economic challenges, from access to affordable tertiary education, to a skills shortage across a number of key industries. Though it would be over-optimistic to say that e-learning alone can solve these problems, the impact is clearly measurable. At Knife Capital we believe in investing in companies that solve real problems and in doing so generate meaningful returns to stakeholders and shareholders alike. Snapplify is such a company and we look forward to being part of the next growth phase.’ Bӧhmert will join Snapplify’s board of directors.